Unfair Quotes

“Cancer Kid has the Make-A-Wish Foundation because Cancer Kid will eventually die, and that's sad. Schizophrenia Kid will also eventually die, but before he does, he will be overmedicated with a plethora of drugs, he will alienate everyone he's ever really cared about, and he will most likely wind up on the street, living with a cat that will eat him when he dies. That is also sad, but nobody gives him a wish, because he isn't actively dying. It is abundantly clear that we only care about sick people who are dying tragic, time-sensitive deaths.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

“Isn't it strange how reading a book is a sin, but locking a girl in the stocks and leaving her to the dogs is another day of the Good Father's work?”
― Alexis Henderson, The Year of the Witching

“Hard for Bunny who still measured events on a child's scale of fair and unfair.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“When it’s our government involved, I think you’ll find our rights are often to be determined.”
― Gwenda Bond, Suspicious Minds

“Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, & unfair.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“Discrimination on the basis of reasons which you have not chosen is injustice.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Julian felt about Courtenay’s looks the way radicals thought about money: that it was deeply unfair and problematic for one person to possess such a disproportionate share.”
― Cat Sebastian, The Ruin of a Rake

“He unrequitedly loved Anna; Anna unrequitedly loved Marco; Marco probably unrequitedly loved some rando none of them had ever met. The world was pitiless. Nobody had any power over anyone else.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“The world is unfair. You realize it after a while and spend the rest of your life heaving under the weight of this realization. It’s a hard and inassimilable truth that can never be changed; people have tried to change it over ages and across the globe, failing miserably in the end.”
― Gaurav Singh, The Boiling Stream: When innocence gets killed

“Such is the villainy of the universe’s trickery – Moments commit mistakes and decades endure the misery”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“vanilla, chocolate, strawberry (for some unfair reason according to strawberry it is always third in that list)”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“Immigration detainees are the ghosts of real prisoners, being punished in advance for crimes that will demand a life sentence.”
― Jan Golembiewski, Magic

“I now know that surrendering, allowing, and “BE-ing” is far more productive than grasping for control. I don't know why one child is born with autism and another isn't, or why some children have to fight cancer and some don't. I have lived long enough to know that life is not fair, never will be fair, and we shouldn’t expect it to be.”
― Jenn Bruer, Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing

“We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.”
― William Faulkner , A Rose for Emily

“Soothe your throats. Injustice has not followed you here.”
― Patrick Ness, Topics About Which I Know Nothing

“He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Deserving ones don’t always get the acclaim. Some people are beautiful but unfortunate, struggling but failing, intelligent but poor, loving but despised. Those who deserve it don’t get it but those who get it don’t deserve it. Such is life.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Life is so unfair. Why would children be born to parents who use and abuse them while those who cherish and ‘garnish’ them remain ‘empty’? Why would the obdurate and cantankerous abound in wealth while the affectionate and generous pauperize? Why would the beautiful and dutiful lack suitors while the bland and unplanned are plenteously patronized? Why would everyday be for the thief’ and not for the chief? Why, why and why?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“unfairness leads you to failness.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Enid had learned the hard way that adults were there to enforce ever-changing rules and to punish kids for breaking rules. The number one rule being that all rules were subject to change--and always in favor of the adult.”
― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels

“Deliberately making unfair decisions means you are unfair not only to others but also with yourself if you understand that. You are worth nothing.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It’s a promise, and a cry, and a prayer.
It’s unfair to ask him. Selfish.
But maybe I’ve earned a little of that, at the end of all things.”
― Sara Wolf, Send Me Their Souls

“It is the fairness of life that makes it seem unfair.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“At the counter, a different waitress flirts with an aspiring writer who's probably been trying to fuck her and finish his screenplay for months. He asks for a side of guac and she tells him that it's two dollars extra. That's how it works here. The guy who deserves free guac doesn't get free guac.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Mostly you realize you can handle it. You'd rather turn it all upside down and dump it out and watch it scatter and disappear. You'd rather do that, because you don't want to have to handle it. You really don't. It's too stupid and crazy and incredibly, incredibly unfair. But you do handle it. Because the thing you learn is that you can.”
― E.R. Frank, Wrecked

“The nature of everything is the truth and based on justice. We make that unfair and unjust.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Isn’t there much more to life than ending it on a note that is not only out of tune but also unfair to us?”
― Nitya Prakash

“All is unfair in love, war and politics".”
― Amit Abraham

“Life is unfair to everyone in different aspects. Someone is emotionally broke, someone is financially broke. Just that, while complaining always remember there are millions still struggling to be you or what you are.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Μα ο πόνος του ανθρώπου σήμερα παραπλήθυνε. Η αδικία, η αγωνία, ο παραλογισμός ξεπερνούν τα σύνορα της αντοχής και του πιο αναίσθητου ανθρώπου.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus